Determine whether the adjective agrees with the substantive in all three categories: case, gender, number.

Questions:

Does it Agree?

1. magn-us agr-ōs

True/False

2. magn-a puella

True/False

3. poet-a* bon-us

True/False

4. magn-um serv-um

True/False

5. poet-ae* magn-ae

True/False

6. bell-a magn-a

True/False

* Nota bene: Poeta (meaning poet) is a masculine noun, even though it ends in -a.

EXERCISE • Lesson 5-Accusative • Answer

See table above. Determine whether the adjective (magnus, bonus..) agrees with the substantives (ager, puella, poeta) in both case (nominative, accusative...), gender (masculine, female and neuter) and number (singular and plural).

to have beenI have beenyou have been(the boy) has beenwe have beenyou (pl.) have beenthey have been

Nota Bene: 'fuisse' and all the forms of it, the past tense of 'esse', behaves exactly like the present tense.

The newly introduced verbs, ama-t, curri-t, and porta-t take the accusative as the 'object'. Unless specified, any verb you look up in the dictionary will take the accusative, not the nominative. This means that they are transitive verbs, verbs that happen to someone or something, e.g.:

I heal you. (acc.)
You make my day. (acc.)
She hit your arm. (acc.)

In the examples above, the bold words are the subject of the sentence clause. Because something happens "to" them, they can't be in nominative.